Hunger Alerts

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC), a human rights group based in Assam state that 10 workers died...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the administration authority has been neglecting their duty to implement social security schemes for the poor thereby failing to...

[RE: AHRC-HAC-101-2011: India: Government’s failure to ensure food and health security led to death of widow] Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt of the death of Mr. Jagabandhu Ghadei on 12 November 2011, due to a lack of proper medical treatment and nutrition after being diagnos...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a widow, Ms. Sanjukta Sethi, died of sickness a few days ago in Puri, Orissa. She and her four children were suffer...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that two small-scale farmers died of intense stress and illness after realising they had lost their land to fraudulent c...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that on September 26, hundreds of people hired by a construction company attacked villagers protesting against the const...

Dear friends, Through field research, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that women and children of the Gandharva community, the most vulnerable Dalit community living in Nepal’s S...

[RE: AHRC-HAC-003-2011: NEPAL: Incomplete land distribution process causes serious food insecurity to the Gandharva Dalit community currently facing crop destruction and abuse by another community] De...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) program aiming to ensuring food security of the poor in Gaibandha district f...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the villagers living on Mayadip Island, Narayanganj district have been deprived of their right to food as a result ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the 30 villagers engaged in road construction from February 2011 onward under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Emp...

[RE: AHRC-HAC-009-2010: India: Five children of Mawasi tribe currently suffering from malnutrition in the village where seven children died of malnutrition in 2008-09] Dear friends, The Asian Human Ri...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information from ANTODAYA, a human rights group working in the Kalahandi district of Orissa that in October 2010, forest departm...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that on April 22, 2011, forest department officers led by their Warden demolished the homes of fourteen landless Dalit families livin...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that Uparagadala village, affected by water borne diseases such as diarrhea since 2009, still faces a lack of safe drinking water and...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the food security of peasants in the Punjab has been threatened by illegal land grabbing by the military for decades. The peasan...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned from field research that the Gandharva community is facing hunger and food insecurity. In 1993 Gandharva, a nomadic Dalit community w...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that 83 Dalit families of Ranapada village have been deprived of their food security by non-Dalits from about 54 nei...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learn from a field visit that more than 30 hamlets of Mandla and Seoni districts are going to be affected by the power plant project being la...